Terms of Service

1. The agreement

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between you and the operator of 59finance (“we”, “us”, “our”). They apply to the website, application and related services we provide (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

If you use the Service on behalf of someone else, you confirm you have authority to bind them to these Terms, and “you” includes that person.

2. Eligibility and minimum age

The Service is offered only to individuals who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly provide the Service to children or to anyone under 18.

When you register you must:

• provide an accurate date of birth;
• confirm that you are 18 or older; and
• accept these Terms.

You must not create an account, or allow anyone else to create an account for you, if you are under 18. You must not give a false date of birth or otherwise try to bypass this requirement.

If we believe, or later discover, that you are under 18, we will terminate your account. Termination in that case is immediate. We may delete or restrict the associated data. We are not obliged to provide a warning, a copy of your data, a refund for a remaining subscription period, or restoration of the account. If you believe an account was terminated in error, you may contact us using the details in section 16.

3. What the service is — and is not

59finance is a manual personal finance and bill-tracking tool. It is designed so you can see what you owe, what is coming up, what you have spent, and where your money goes.

Depending on which features are enabled, the Service may let you:

• create an account and manage your profile, password, currency, timezone and month-start preferences;
• record one-off expenses and custom categories;
• set up recurring bills and review scheduled occurrences on a pay list and calendar;
• mark bills paid, unpaid or skipped (marking paid can record a linked expense);
• track income sources and a monthly overview of income, bills, spending and remaining planned amounts;
• set category or overall budgets and receive in-app alerts when they are approaching or exceeded;
• record loans, credit cards, vehicles, savings pots, stock holdings and retirement plans you enter yourself;
• view analytics, monthly reports and download CSV exports of your data;
• receive in-app notifications about bills and budgets;
• review subscription options and, where enabled, generate AI insights from the numbers you have entered.

The Service is not:

• a bank, payment institution, e-money issuer, credit broker or lender;
• an open-banking or account-information service — we never ask for a bank login and we do not connect to your bank;
• a brokerage, investment platform or insurance product;
• tax, accounting, insolvency or regulated financial advice;
• a guarantee that bills will be paid, debts will be cleared, or figures will match a real-world statement.

You enter the numbers. We store and calculate from what you type. If a figure is wrong, incomplete or out of date, the picture we show you will be too.

Subscription status is currently recorded for billing purposes but does not restrict finance features.

4. Your account

You need an account to use most of the Service. You must provide a name, a working email address, a password of at least eight characters, a date of birth, and a display currency. You must keep that information accurate.

You are responsible for your password and for activity on your account. Do not share your login. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has used it. We may rate-limit sign-in attempts and keep audit records of security-sensitive events.

We may pause new registrations from time to time. Existing accounts can still sign in when sign-ups are paused.

You may update your profile, password and preferences, and you may delete your account from Settings after confirming with your password. Deletion removes access immediately. Export anything you need from Reports before you delete. We may retain limited records where we must (for example payment, fraud-prevention or audit records).

5. Your information

You retain whatever rights you already have in the financial details you enter (bills, spending, income, debts, cards, vehicles, savings, holdings, retirement plans and similar). You grant us a limited licence to host, process, display, back up and calculate from that information to operate the Service for you — including generating occurrences, overviews, charts, reports, notifications, exports and, if you request them, AI insights — and to create aggregated and anonymised insights as described in section 6.

We collect and process information such as:

• account details (name, email, password hash, date of birth, currency, timezone, preferences);
• the financial records you create;
• subscription status, billing preferences and payment records;
• session, device and security data (for example IP address, user agent, login attempts);
• audit logs of important account and billing actions;
• records that you accepted these Terms.

Date of birth is collected to enforce the 18+ eligibility rule in section 2. We may also convert it into a broad age band for the aggregated statistics described in section 6. We do not use it to publish your individual age.

You can download CSV copies of many of your records from Reports. Figures shown in another currency may use recent exchange rates and are estimates only.

Do not enter information you are not allowed to share, or information about other people unless you have the right to do so.

6. Personal records and market insights

We never sell your personal information. We may create commercial value from anonymised, aggregated statistics — patterns across many users that cannot reasonably identify you. This section is not a licence to sell your name, your email, your household’s bills, or any other information that is about you as a person.

We never sell personal information

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information, your account, or a list of identifiable users. That includes, without limitation:

• your name, email address, login details or password;
• your date of birth as an individual identifier;
• your individual bills, expenses, income, debts, cards, vehicles, savings, holdings, retirement plans or other account-level records;
• a profile that could reasonably be used to single you out;
• bank logins, account numbers, sort codes or payment-card numbers — we do not ask for a bank connection, and we do not sell those details;
• images, receipts or other files you may upload, or personal details that happen to appear in them.

Removing a name does not, by itself, make financial information anonymous. Information that could still reasonably identify you — including pseudonymised records that can be matched back to you using other data — remains personal data. We will not sell that information.

Aggregated and anonymised information

We may create aggregated and anonymised information from data collected through the Service. That may include statistical information about spending patterns, bill and expense categories, financial behaviours, and broad groupings such as age bands or geographic regions where we have them.

Where information is genuinely anonymised so that individuals are no longer identifiable, it is no longer personal information. We may use that kind of statistic to run and improve the Service, for research, and as a commercial market-insight product (for example figures that research firms, retailers, financial-services firms or public-policy researchers might licence). That is the only data we may sell or licence: non-identifying patterns, never a person.

That means we might share something like:

• “Among users aged 30–39, median monthly grocery spending is £X.”
• “Average reported rent in a region, where the group is large enough to publish.”

It does not mean we share something like:

• “This named 32-year-old has £14,283 of outstanding loans.”
• A list of people in an age band who spend more than a given amount on groceries.

A commercial insights product must not be able to answer questions about a single person. We will only use or share a statistic where the group is large enough that we reasonably consider an individual cannot be identified from it. We do not provide datasets that can be queried for a named person or for a list of identifiable users.

What we do not infer for sale

We do not collect, and we do not build commercial products that infer, special-category characteristics such as race or ethnicity, religion, health, sexual orientation or political opinions — including by trying to guess those things from spending. Age bands and (where you have given them) general location bands are not used that way.

Companies that help us run the Service

Running the Service requires a small number of suppliers — for example a host for the servers, a payment processor if you purchase a subscription, and (only if you generate an AI insight) an AI provider. Those companies may need to process some personal information so the product works: storing your account, taking a payment, or producing an insight you asked for. They may use that information only to provide their service to us, under contract and security protections, and they are not permitted to sell it.

That is not a sale by us, and it is not a market-insights product. We do not give these suppliers your records so they can market to you or build their own profiles of you.

7. Estimates, not financial advice

Payoff dates, utilisation bars, budget progress, remaining-this-month figures, stock gain/loss, vehicle running costs, analytics, reports and AI summaries are estimates based on the data you enter. They are not promises, forecasts you can rely on, or regulated financial advice.

Stock values are whatever you type. We do not pull live market prices. Savings and ISA pots are trackers, not actual bank or tax-wrapper accounts. Credit-card and loan maths use the balances, rates and payments you supply.

Nothing in the Service is an offer, solicitation or recommendation to borrow, invest, buy, sell or hold any product. If you need advice, speak to a suitably authorised adviser.

8. Subscriptions and payments

The billing page may offer one month of access for $4.99, either as a one-off payment or as a subscription that renews monthly until cancelled, one year of access for a one-off $49.99 payment, and lifetime access for a one-off $149.97 payment, priced as three years of the annual plan. The price, duration and renewal terms shown at checkout apply to your purchase.

Payments are processed by Stripe. We activate or extend access only after server-side confirmation from Stripe, and record provider references so replayed confirmations do not create duplicate payments. Stripe’s own payment terms also apply. You cancel a renewing monthly subscription in Stripe’s billing pages. Cancellation stops future renewals; access may continue until the end of the paid period. One-off purchases, including the year and lifetime plans, do not renew.

Lifetime access is Premium access to the Service for as long as we offer it, on the account that paid for it. It does not renew, it has no cash value, and it cannot be transferred, shared or resold. It is not a promise that the Service will run for your lifetime. If we discontinue the Service, or if we close the account under these Terms, lifetime access ends with it. A later change in plan prices does not create a refund or a further payment for a lifetime purchase already made.

In a non-production environment the Service may offer a clearly labelled test activation that takes no payment. Test access and administrator-granted unlimited access are internal account states, are not available for users to grant themselves, and have no cash value.

Refund and withdrawal rights depend on applicable consumer law and when digital access begins. Contact us if you believe a charge is incorrect. Deleting your account does not itself cancel or refund a payment already processed.

9. AI insights

Where AI insights are available, they are optional plain-language summaries of your own entered data — for example month-over-month change, the share of income going to commitments, or upcoming payment pressure.

They are estimates, not advice, and they may be wrong, incomplete or out of date. We may use a third-party model to produce them. Do not include secrets you would not want processed for that purpose.

We may pause, change or withdraw AI features, including by a feature flag, without ending the rest of the Service.

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service if you are under 18, or help someone under 18 to do so;
• provide false registration details, including a false date of birth;
• attempt to access another person’s account or data;
• probe, scrape, overload or interfere with the Service, or bypass security, rate limits or payment checks;
• use the Service for fraud, money laundering, or any unlawful purpose;
• upload malware or content that is illegal or that infringes someone else’s rights;
• misrepresent 59finance as a bank, adviser, or as affiliated with any brand whose logo appears for identification;
• resell, reverse engineer or copy the Service except as the law allows.

Brand marks and merchant names shown in the Service (for example on bills or cards) are for identification only. They belong to their owners. We are not endorsed by those owners.

11. Intellectual property

We and our licensors own the Service: the software, design, trademarks (including “59finance” and the “59” mark), layout and documentation. Aggregated and anonymised insights we create from the Service, as described in section 6, are also ours. These Terms do not transfer that ownership.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service as intended, while your account is in good standing.

12. Availability, features and changes

We aim to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may change, suspend or withdraw features (including budgets, AI insights or sign-ups) for maintenance, security, legal or product reasons.

We may update these Terms. The “Last updated” date at the top will change. If a change is material, we will try to give reasonable notice (for example in the product or by email). Continued use after the change takes effect means you accept the new Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from Settings.

We may suspend or terminate your account immediately if:

• you are, or we reasonably believe you are, under 18;
• you breach these Terms, including by giving a false date of birth;
• we must do so for security, legal or fraud-prevention reasons;
• we discontinue the Service.

Under-18 accounts are terminated, not merely warned. After termination you will not be able to sign in. We may refuse a new account from the same person.

On termination or deletion, your licence to use the Service ends. Sections that should reasonably survive (including eligibility, personal records and market insights, intellectual property, liability, payment records, and governing law) continue to apply.

14. Liability

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

We are not liable for decisions you make using the Service, for bills you miss, for debts that cost more than an estimate suggested, for market moves, or for third-party services (including payment processors and AI providers).

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

Subject to that, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and (b) £50.

You will indemnify us against claims, losses and costs arising from your misuse of the Service or your breach of these Terms, except to the extent caused by our own unlawful conduct.

15. Governing law

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, these Terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these Terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them as part of a reorganisation or sale of the Service.

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. They replace any earlier understandings on the same subject.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms, or about an account terminated under the age rule, can be sent to [email protected].